I met the Dad, his wife and 5 kids will be moving out here in a few weeks. We did find out that they do have a couple kids about the same age as the twins. It will be nice to have some older kids on the street. While there are a lot of families here, those that do have children are very young ones.
As for the annoying neighbors… not much of a change there. They still have loud conversations on their front porch late at night, they still park out in the street blocking traffic, and there are still strange things that go on there that there is no apparent reason or cause for. Hopefully though, now that the house next to them will have someone living in it, they will no longer block that driveway when they park all their cars out in the street.
On another subject, I saw a commercial for a show titled Brat Camp on TV. It looks interesting. Families with out of control teens send them to this “camp” that sounds like one of those tough love kind of situations. I’m looking forward to it personally. I’m sure there are some out there who will feel this is abominable. Those are probably people who have the freak of nature kids who never do anything wrong, or people who have no children at all.
A note here, it has been pointed out to me that it sounds like I am jaded against those parents of perfect (or at least extremely well behaved) children. It is more that I am frustrated by them. While I know that they are not all the same, I have had more than one parent of well behaved children suggest to me that the problems my chidren have are the fault of myself and my husband.
To people who feel that way, I have one thing to say to them. Eat my shorts.